Barcelona Supercomputing Center
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación is a public research center located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It hosts MareNostrum, a 13,7 Petaflops, Intel Xeon Platinum-based supercomputer, which also includes clusters of emerging technologies. In June 2017[update], it ranked 13th in the world.[1][2]
The Center is located in a former chapel named Torre Girona, at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), and was established on April 1, 2005. It is managed by a consortium composed of the Spanish Ministry of Economy (60%), the Government of Catalonia (30%) and the UPC (10%). Professor Mateo Valero is its main administrator. The MareNostrum supercomputer is contained inside an enormous glass box in a former chapel.
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center has an initial operational budget of €5.5 million/year (about US$7 million/yr) to cover the period 2005–2011. The center has had a very rapid growth and in 2016 had a workforce of around 500 workers and an annual global budget of more than 34 million euros.[3]
The Center has contributed to the development of the IBM Cell microprocessor architecture.[4]
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MareNostrum 4 supercomputer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (2017) -
MareNostrum 4 supercomputer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (2017)
Staff
- Director: Mateo Valero[5]
- Associate director: Josep Maria Martorell[citation needed]
- Computer Sciences director: Jesús Labarta[6]
- Computer Sciences associate director: Eduard Ayguadé[7]
- Life Sciences director: Alfonso Valencia
- Earth Sciences director: [8]
- Computer Applications for Science and Engineering director: José María Cela[9]
- Operations director: Sergi Girona[citation needed]
In popular culture
The Barcelona Supercomputing Center appears in Dan Brown's 2017 science fiction mystery thriller novel Origin, as the home of the E-Wave device.
Notes
- ^ "MareNostrum 4 begins operation". Barcelona Supercomputing Center. 29 June 2017.
- ^ "Top500 List - Supercomputer Sites". www.top500.org.
- ^ "BSC-CNS in Numbers". www.bsc.es.
- ^ "Barcelona Supercomputer Center (BSC)". Bsc.es. Archived from the original on 2007-03-08. Retrieved 2011-09-03.
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- ^ "Jesús Labarta". Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
- ^ "Eduard Ayguadé". Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
- ^ Doblas Reyes, Francisco Javier. "Doblas Reyes, Francisco Javier". Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies. Retrieved April 7, 2018.
- ^ "José María Cela". Barcelona Supercomputing Center.